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<br />I'm trying to get a grasp on these irregular adjectives. Are my translations to Latin correct?<br /><br /><br />#2 Some towns are great and others are small.<br /> Alia oppida magna, alia parva sunt.<br /> Alia oppida magna sunt, alia parva.<br />(oppida magna=NOM PL)<br /><br />I wasn't sure in which position sunt should be. However for the next question, I placed the verb at the end which felt like the right thing to do. (#3 One boy likes chickens, another horses -> Aliï puer gallïnäs, equös amat. (gallïnäs=ACC; equös=ACC) )<br /><br /><br />#5 Our whole village is suffering for lack of food.<br /> Noster tötus vïcus ïnfïrmus ïnopiä cibï est.<br />(inopia cibi=ABL)<br /><br />Is it correct to use the ABL here without any preposition? I think this falls under the Ablative of Cause which doesn't require a preposition.<br /><br /><br />#6 The people are already hastening to the other town.<br /> Populus iam ad aliud oppidum properat.<br />(ad aliud=ACC)<br /><br />Is it correct to use ad and the ACC with properat?<br /><br />I feel like I can't get a handle on which case to use with which prepositions.<br />Do a/ab, apud, cum, de, e/ex, and in take the ABL? ???<br />While ad takes the ACC? ???<br /><br /><br />#7 Among the Romans (there) is no lack of grain.<br /> Apud Romanï sunt nüllia inopia frumentï.<br /><br /><br />

<br />#5 Our whole village is suffering for lack of food.<br /> Noster tötus vïcus ïnfïrmus ïnopiä cibï est.<br />(inopia cibi=ABL)<br /><br />Is it correct to use the ABL here without any preposition? I think this falls under the Ablative of Cause which doesn't require a preposition.<br />

Apud Romanõs nulla est inopia frumenti <br /><br />=I forgot that was there <br /><br />Skylax, it sounds like perfect Latin but I can not figure out why...the nulla would go before the est although it sounds right Latin to me. <br /><br />rather than ...est nulla inopia frumenti<br />

Quote:<br />#6 The people are already hastening to the other town.<br /> Populus iam ad aliud oppidum properat.<br />(ad aliud=ACC)<br /><br />Is it correct to use ad and the ACC with properat?<br /><br />Think of alius as another (more than two) and alter as the other (of two). I'd use 'alter' here. <br />And I assumed they were hastening into town, so I used in + acc. But that might be a personal preference <br /><br />Ingrid

[quote author=ingrid70 link=board=3;threadid=321;start=0#2222 date=1059512592]<br />Quote:<br />#6 The people are already hastening to the other town.<br /> Populus iam ad aliud oppidum properat.<br />(ad aliud=ACC)<br /><br />Is it correct to use ad and the ACC with properat?<br /><br />Think of alius as another (more than two) and alter as the other (of two). I'd use 'alter' here. <br />And I assumed they were hastening into town, so I used in + acc. But that might be a personal preference <br /><br />Ingrid<br />[/quote]<br /><br />yay ;D

Maybe est nulla is simply more difficult to pronounce (the group "-stn-". The question of word order is a very difficult one. I am not sure we can still fully understand it today. The meanings of the scholars are sometimes changing. I am pretty well convinced that the last words of a clause are the most important, but aliud in ea re sentit alius...

[quote author=Episcopus link=board=3;threadid=321;start=0#2203 date=1059509160]<br />#6. The people are already hastening to the other town. <br />Iam populus ad alterum oppidum properat<br />(I don't know whether this should be alter, a, um or alius, a, ud!) [/quote]<br /><br />Interesting how you chose to use alter while I chose alius. I'm note sure what the difference is between these two. <br />

<br /><br />Oh I see. Since Apud should be followed by the ACC, it's Apud Romanos.... I hadn't known that, which is why I used the NOM Romani.<br /><br />I was going to ask why you used est, but I see the subject "Among the Romans" is considered singular. I was thrown off by "Romans" and thought the sentence was plural. How do you know where to put nulla? I would want to put it next to inopia.<br /><br />

[quote author=ingrid70 link=board=3;threadid=321;start=0#2222 date=1059512592]<br />Think of alius as another (more than two) and alter as the other (of two). I'd use 'alter' here. <br />And I assumed they were hastening into town, so I used in + acc. But that might be a personal preference [/quote]<br /><br />Thanks for the tip, I've jotted that down and will try to remember it that way. Your reasoning for using alter is that they are obviously leaving one two for another town, so there are two towns in the picture? That seems to make sense. <br /><br />As for ad vs in...hmm... I guess it would depend on where they are in relation to the town they're heading towards. If they've just left the first town and are far away from the second town, then perhaps it should be ad since they're making motions towards the second town. However if they're getting very close to the second town, then perhaps it should be in since they're already practically there and the next step would be to go into the town.<br /><br />

[quote author=Skylax link=board=3;threadid=321;start=0#2229 date=1059513050]<br />Maybe est nulla is simply more difficult to pronounce (the group "-stn-". The question of word order is a very difficult one. I am not sure we can still fully understand it today. The meanings of the scholars are sometimes changing. I am pretty well convinced that the last words of a clause are the most important, but aliud in ea re sentit alius... [/quote]<br /><br />I read somewhere (here? in a book? I really don't remember where) that the first and last words in a sentence were most important. I guess that means that the parts go in decreasing order of importance/emphasis as you move towards the middle of the sentence. I haven't really paid much attention to using this to any advantage, I'm too busy trying to get all the individual words in the correct declension/number/gender.<br />

[quote author=mariek link=board=3;threadid=321;start=0#2194 date=1059506292]<br />I'm trying to get a grasp on these irregular adjectives. Are my translations to Latin correct?<br /><br /><br />#2 Some towns are great and others are small.<br /> Alia oppida magna, alia parva sunt.<br /> Alia oppida magna sunt, alia parva.<br />(oppida magna=NOM PL)<br /><br />I wasn't sure in which position sunt should be. However for the next question, I placed the verb at the end which felt like the right thing to do. (#3 One boy likes chickens, another horses -> Aliï puer gallïnäs, equös amat. (gallïnäs=ACC; equös=ACC) )[/quote]<br /><br />It doesn't affect the correctness of the sentence wherever you place the verb. It may change the nuance, but you could put the sunt between oppida and magna and the sentence would make just as much sense.<br /><br />To translate it idiomatically, alius usually means "other" and alter usually means "the other."<br /><br />Prepositions of position typically use an ablative while prepositions of motion typically use an accusative. This is not universal, as demonstrated by apud.

<br /><br />Oh I see. Since Apud should be followed by the ACC, it's Apud Romanos.... I hadn't known that, which is why I used the NOM Romani.<br /><br />I was going to ask why you used est, but I see the subject "Among the Romans" is considered singular. I was thrown off by "Romans" and thought the sentence was plural. How do you know where to put nulla? I would want to put it next to inopia.<br /><br /><br />

First of all, 'is' can't be the subject, because it's the predicate (it took me ages to find the English expression, I hope it's the right one). As there is no 'there' in the Latin, I doubt you could call it the subject of the Latin sentence. Another possible translation would be "doesn't exist" for "non est"; that way no difficult to answer questions arise about the subject .<br /><br />Vale.<br /><br />Ptolemaios

I have just reached this section, and I got a different answer for #3. <br /><br />One boy likes chickens, another horses.<br /><br />I translated it this way:<br /><br />Alius puer gallinas, alius equos amat.<br /><br />Is this correct? I thought alius ought to be nom masculine singular, which is alius.

Alius is usually used with more than two people/things, so alter would probably be more conventional. However, it is not wrong to use alius as well, as Cicero demonstrates here:<br /><br />aliud est maledicere, aliud accusare<br />"It is one thing to speak ill of someone, it is another thing to accuse"

[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=321;start=15#5340 date=1062740331]<br /><br />aliud est maledicere, aliud accusare<br />"It is one thing to speak ill of someone, it is another thing to accuse"<br />[/quote]<br /><br />That-there is a lovely line. <br /><br />Latin is great in that it implies things yet it needs not to be clumsily obvious. Aliud (n) - another thing, whereas alia would mean another woman/female in no other context<br /><br />"Ubi charitas deus ibi est" - it was on the wall of my R.E room in school! I finally understood it. After 2 years of staring at it...<br /><br />It could have been "ubi charitas est deus (ibi) est" but that seems to be clumsy latin.<br /><br />And the "ibi" is for me quite necessary to point out the place relating to "ubi charitas".<br /><br />/shuts up <br /><br />

Yes, my teacher once told me that ibi answers the phrase that ubi asks. The line Ubi charitas deus ibi est has a slightly different slant than saying it without the "est." Without, it would mean "Where there is charity (love of God), there is God." With it, it would be more specifically focused on location... i.e. "Where charity is, God is there."